Endoscope for pearls

[ericw]

Hi !
Will you, please, tell me if any endoscopes or over tools exist to exam pearls' inside, deeply, through their hole?

 

[GemGeek]

I haven't heard of one, but as a gemologist, I have looked down many a drill hole with a microscope.

 

[ericw]

Thanks for your reply, GemGeek !
I am trying to carve many kinds of pearls, and I have seen how there are made by many different ways. For exemple, somes lavanders grow on a thick layer of brown conchyolin, just under area's coloured nacre, but not everyone. It's a problem to make the difference between right pearls to work and the others... And with a microscope, I mean that the view given by this tool is not enough to locate these layers which disturb my work. Conchyolin has not at all the same hardness than nacre, it's as I should find wood under marble, not a good situation for a sculptor. An other exemple is to know how deeply are the good layers of nacre, that I have seen able to be very thin, even around the best looking pearls. It's why a tool exploring layer by layer would be helpful... for me...

 

[GemGeek]

I wish I could help. Good luck.

 

[ericw]

Thanks...Don't worry, it's the hard life of artists

 

[GemGeek]

Pearls really are nature's unpredictable masterpieces!

 

[ericw]

Yes, it's why they are so fascinating ! I love it, even I have hold and seen so many other gems, pearls are the most mysterious.